''Matelea variifolia'',

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including '' Matelea borinquensis'', known commonly as the San Lorenzo milkvine, is a species of

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in the family

Apocynaceae Apocynaceae (, from '' Apocynum'', Greek for "dog-away") is a family of flowering plants that includes trees, shrubs, herbs, stem succulents, and vines, commonly known as the dogbane family, because some taxa were used as dog poison. Notable mem ...

. It is a forest plant, endemic to

Puerto Rico ; abbreviated PR), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, is a Government of Puerto Rico, self-governing Caribbean Geography of Puerto Rico, archipelago and island organized as an Territories of the United States, unincorporated territo ...

, and is found in

Cerro Pelucho Cerro is Spanish for "hill" or "mountain". People * Francisco Cerro (born 1988), Argentine footballer * Francisco Cerro Chaves (born 1957), Spanish prelate, theologian, and philosopher of the Catholic Church * Ian Cerro (born 1996), American ...

, San Lorenzo.Page 239, ''Descriptive flora of Puerto Rico and adjacent islands: Spermatophyta - Dicotyledoneae. Melastomataceae to Lentibulariaceae'', by Alain H. Liogier and Henri Alain Liogier. Published by La Editorial, UPR, 1995. /

References

variifolia Endemic flora of Puerto Rico Flora without expected TNC conservation status {{Apocynaceae-stub